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Edward Palmer's Arkansaw mounds / edited by Marvin D. Jeter ; contributions by Ian W. Brown ... [and others].
Penn Museum Library E78.A8 P35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911.
- Standardized Title:
- Arkansaw mounds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911.
- Indians of North America--Arkansas--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Travel.
- Mound-builders.
- Arkansas.
- Antiquities.
- Mound-builders--Arkansas.
- Mounds--Arkansas.
- Mounds.
- Arkansas--Antiquities.
- Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911--Travel--Arkansas.
- Palmer, Edward.
- Arkansas--Description and travel.
- Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division--History.
- Smithsonian Institution.
- Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Edward Palmer's Arkansas mounds
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century's greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them.
- Notes:
- "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
- Originally published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780817356125
- 0817356126
- 9780817383343
- 0817383344
- OCLC:
- 436029121
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